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Arabian, Fisseu; Croatian, Vodarisa rogocara; Czechisch, Mysak; Danish, Sivsanger; Dutch, Bietzanger; Finnish, Buohoherttu; French, Bec-fin phragmite; German, Schilf-Rohrsänger; Hungarian, Foltos sitke; Italian, Forapaglie; Maltese, Violin; Norwegian, Sivsanger; Polish, Trzciniak rokit-niczka; Russian, Kamyschefka kamyschewaja; Spanish, Buscarla; Swedish, Säfsångare.

Adults in Spring.—The sexes are alike, the male, perhaps, being a trifle brighter and rather larger, but on the other hand a bright female may surpass a dull-coloured male. The upper parts are of an umber brown tint shading into an almost unspotted rusty brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts. There is a conspicuous buffish white superciliary stripe and above that an equally conspicuous blackish stripe; the feathers in the middle part of the crown